GSoC 2012 Greetings

I've been accepted to work on a network probing and statistics project.
We know very little about Freenet's network health and how to improve
it, and I hope to fill those gaps in knowledge with both simulation and
measurement. Specifically, I plan to:

* Build simulators to establish good parameters for network probing,
  reproduce the current network state after figuring out what that is,
  then make changes to improve that behavior in simulation.
* Depreciate the current probe requests in favor of those in bug #3568.
  [1] These report more useful information in a more privacy-conscious
  way, and will be exposed over FCP.
* Write a tool to run networks probes and present plots of the results.

evanbd is mentoring me on this project. On Fridays I will give updates
to the development mailing list, FMS, and Sone.

Thanks,
operhiem1

[1] https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3568